I tried the 4.4 LiveCD and find it has a very good selection from both GNOME and KDE. I request that a single installer CD (as opposed to the full 4 CD set or 1 DVD) be provided for installing the same contents to the hard disk, just like a regular install.
Maybe you can do the installer on the same live CD, like the Kubuntu Desktop CD.
Single CD installs will go a long way to popularize CentOS, IMHO.
P.S: Seeing as this Live CD is based on the linux-live scripts, and SLAX which uses the same linux-live scripts can be just copied to HDD and run from there, is it also possible to do the same with CentOS?
P.P.S: I will be travelling a week starting today so I may not reply quickly.
Shriramana Sharma wrote:
I tried the 4.4 LiveCD and find it has a very good selection from both GNOME and KDE. I request that a single installer CD (as opposed to the full 4 CD set or 1 DVD) be provided for installing the same contents to the hard disk, just like a regular install.
Maybe you can do the installer on the same live CD, like the Kubuntu Desktop CD.
Single CD installs will go a long way to popularize CentOS, IMHO.
There already is a Single CD installer, with a default Server Mode selection, but nothing stops you from doing a minimal install and then yum groupinstall 'GNOME Desktop'
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Single CD installs will go a long way to popularize CentOS, IMHO.
There already is a Single CD installer, with a default Server Mode selection, but nothing stops you from doing a minimal install and then yum groupinstall 'GNOME Desktop'
Lack of readily available bandwidth might. Try it over 14.4k dialup if you have doubts.
On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 10:30 -0400, Charlie Brady wrote:
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Single CD installs will go a long way to popularize CentOS, IMHO.
There already is a Single CD installer, with a default Server Mode selection, but nothing stops you from doing a minimal install and then yum groupinstall 'GNOME Desktop'
Lack of readily available bandwidth might. Try it over 14.4k dialup if you have doubts.
There are any number of ISO sellers for people to purchase ISOs from for situations like that.
It is not possible to provide all the content on the liveCD on a single anaconda installable CD. (The liveCD is nearly 2GB in size and made smaller by squashfs/unionfs.
The purpose of the LiveCD is:
1. Bootable to test hardware/software ... test if you like the look / feel of CentOS before installing.
2. Bootable as an emergency rescue disc.
In both cases, it is not designed to be installed to hard drive OR be supported as an Official CentOS install.
While it is possible to install it to hard drive by following the directions on the SLAX site, I do not necessarily recommend that.
It will work, and you can get updates if you properly configure your system ... however, it does not use the standard CentOS init scripts which causes things like hostname changes, root and user passwd changes, X11 detections and configuration every boot, hardware detection and configuration every boot, etc. that are based on the fact that it is designed to boot from CD on different PCs every time it is used. The whole boot process is sub optimal and take longer that the standard CentOS boot process.
If you fixed all those issues, it would work fine installed to the drive, however, just installing CentOS by one of the supported methods is much easier.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 10:30 -0400, Charlie Brady wrote:
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Single CD installs will go a long way to popularize CentOS, IMHO.
There already is a Single CD installer, with a default Server Mode selection, but nothing stops you from doing a minimal install and then yum groupinstall 'GNOME Desktop'
Lack of readily available bandwidth might. Try it over 14.4k dialup if you have doubts.
There are any number of ISO sellers for people to purchase ISOs from for situations like that.
It is not possible to provide all the content on the liveCD on a single anaconda installable CD. (The liveCD is nearly 2GB in size and made smaller by squashfs/unionfs.
Most of the files (rpms) are already compressed, so space for those shouldn't be an issue. Running the rest through mkzftree and then using mkisofs -z should attend to the rest. Then it's just an issue of package selection:-)
Be aware, though, that the resultant CD could only be read sensibly on Linux; Mac OS, Windows & the rest won't be able to display file contents correctly.
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